Five Reasons You Should Build Your Mobile Site With HTML5http://www.businessinsider.com/five-reasons-you-should-build-your-mobile-site-with-html5-2012-3/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:37:25 -0500Jason Taylorhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f8c6362ecad045743000003Jason TaylorMon, 16 Apr 2012 14:22:26 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f8c6362ecad045743000003
Thank you for your input input into the subject. You are correct that the key use of HTML5, when incorporated into a mobile site, is to the deliver the best experience possible for webkit or HTML5 capable browsers.
The Usablenet framework deploys HTML5 within the features outlined in this article, such as the geo-location API, CSS transitions, HTML5 form controls, touch screen elements, and many more, depending on the capability of the browser.
Our development framework takes care of differences in HTML5 standards supported by different mobile browsers. The differences in HTML5 support within different browsers that you bring up is a very interesting subject, and the HTML5 site <a href="http://mobilehtml5.org/" target="_blank">http://mobilehtml5.org/</a> outlines the broad differences in support for specific features within different browsers.
In the end you are correct that businesses and end users will look at features instead of the underlying technology, and good mobile site experiences will be ones that wrap the delivery of these features in HTML5 elements, when possible, to create the broadest experience for consumers -- and improve overall performance of the sites.
Regards,
Jason Taylor
Usablenet Head of Innovation and Platform Strategyhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f86d07e6bb3f7384600000dStefan PearsonThu, 12 Apr 2012 08:54:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f86d07e6bb3f7384600000d
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I'm the author of Introducing HTML5, the first book on the subject and stumbled upon this article while researching a presentation I'm giving about HTML5 to business people and managers. I'd like to clear up some of its inaccuracies.
1. Create an App-Like Experience in the Browser Environment" is certainly an advantage with HTML5 - things like App Cache, local storage and related specs like web sockets certainly help make in-browser Apps more comparable to native apps, on desktop or mobile.
2. Location Aware Experience - this is great on all platforms. But it's nothing to do with HTML5; geolocation is a W3C specification.
3. Streamline The Shopping Cart
I have no idea what you're referring to here. Inelegant, unusable shopping carts are perfectly achievable with HTML5; well-integrated, smooth shopping experiences have long been possible with HTML4. Perhaps you could be more specific about which aspects of HTML5 bring about this new functionality?
4. Richer Product Images - this is simply nonsense. There is nothing new in HTML5 that allows richer images.
5. Expandable Navigation and Collapsible Menus. The author writes "expand and collapse menus and pop-up windows on the homepage and category pages -- features not previously available that are made possible with HTML5.", but this is untrue. Behaviour of menus and pop-ups isn't defined by HTML but by JavaScript and this has been possible for years.
What HTML5 is great for is ensuring that websites work across different browsers and different devices. By coding to the standard (and not proprietary non-standard whizzbangs), using feature-detection and not browser sniffing, and progressive enhancement, you can ensure a great user experience for those with the latest greatest phones running Opera Mobile and webkit browsers, while ensuring that people on older devices, or older browsers aren't locked out.
HTML5 is great. But the "reasons" outlined in this article are red herrings.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f758a0e69bedd9f2500006dAlexander KariaginFri, 30 Mar 2012 06:25:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f758a0e69bedd9f2500006d
Hi Jason,
my 5 cents regarding mobile online trading software.
Brokers and broker-dealers with their online stocks/options/forex trading platforms are already moving to HTML5 mobile solutions and this looks to be a major trend. The main reason is that once coded it can be converted to any mobile platform with native device functions support. Hope to see more products in the near future.
Best regards,
Alexander Kariagin
VP, Business Development at ETNA Software